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windlestraw definition

win·dle·straw (win′dəl strô′)

noun

  1. a dried stalk of grass
  2. a slender or weak person or thing

Etymology: < OE windelstreaw (via Scot dial.) < windel, a bundle (< windan, to wind) + streaw, straw

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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